The Lord of the Worlds of Civilization

Chapter 1198, Pressure at Sea

Luo Ji was always quite satisfied with Anbu's ability to handle affairs. The interrogation report in front of him let Luo Ji know a lot of things.

For example, there is not only one murloc tribe in the sea, but they are scattered into countless branches, large and small, occupying various sea areas.

Similar to some indigenous tribes on land.

The murlocs in the sea also occupy their own territories, sometimes they live in peace, and sometimes they attack each other, fighting fiercely, all for the sake of living space and food resources.

And this murloc originally lived in the sea outside the swamp rainforest.

However, the emergence of Hydra squeezed their living space to a great extent, which made them subject to the dark elves and formed the current situation.

Of course, this information is only secondary. For Luo Ji, the most important information is the location of the Dark Elf's island!

If you can't grasp the enemy's position, you can only fall into a passive position.

If you want to turn passive into active, mastering intelligence is the first step.

From the two murloc captives, the Anbu members asked for a relatively detailed sea map. Judging from this map, after leaving the Yangtze River Basin, to reach the island where the dark elves are located, you have to spend a lot of money. Quite a long time.

At the same time, there are still a large number of murlocs and even Hydra in the sea leading to this island.

This made Luo Ji realize more clearly that conquering this sea area is not as easy as he thought. The sea is really a dangerous place. In comparison, other people's seas are much cuter...

Moreover, as he thought deeply, Luo Ji quickly realized another more troublesome problem.

That is, how should he deal with the murlocs?

As a race that lives underwater, even if he showed a strong force in the end, what if he forced the other party to surrender?How should he rule after that?Murlocs live underwater, but they live on land.

It turns out that there doesn't seem to be a suitable solution, which is a real headache.

Exhaling a long breath, Luo Ji decided not to worry about it for the time being.

The most urgent thing right now is to find a way to get rid of Hydra first.

The Dark Elf's overall naval strength is definitely not as good as his. The backward Black Sail Fleet is absolutely vulnerable to his Yangtze River Fleet, but the opponent has the super-standard top-level naval combat unit 'Hydra'.

For this kind of monster whose scales are hard enough to defend against bullets and shelling, and can even move under the sea for a long time, even the staff headquarters, which is full of talents, seems a little helpless for a while.

Feeling the pressure from the sea, Luo Ji had no choice but to change his current development policy, asking the Military Research Department to put aside several other projects for the time being, and devote all his efforts to the development and research of underwater weapons, striving for an early date. Make a weapon that can cause enough damage to Hydra.

During this period, on the land, what should be developed will naturally continue to develop.

Over the years, the crazy development of the naval power of the civilization of the Ten Thousand Realms has brought a lot of pressure on the civilization's finances.

After all, before the official development of naval combat power, the civilization of Myriad Worlds did not have this kind of financial consumption.

Originally, the financial department thought that the army was the one that burned the most money. The research and development of various rifles and cannons, the mass production of ammunition and shells, and the daily training expenses of soldiers in major military regions were an astronomical figure every day. Once there is a war, this number may have to be multiplied tenfold at once.

And ever since the naval forces started training and the steel battleships were put into production, they suddenly felt something was wrong...

what's the situation?When the army burns money, it’s better to burn it in bundles, but you can just pour it into the brazier with big boxes and big boxes? !

In just a few years, the financial pressure brought by the Navy has caused the civilization of the Ten Thousand Worlds, whose economic situation was almost to be improved, to sound the red alarm again.

And just last week, another battleship officially entered service, and now their Yangtze River Fleet of Myriad Worlds Civilization already has 23 destroyers and five battleships!

Luo Ji had no intention of building a cruiser.

The emergence of cruisers was originally designed to balance speed and firepower.

But as I said before, in the field of warships, armor, speed and firepower, these three are impossible to balance.

If you insist on taking both, you will eventually only create a ship that can't get up and down, but it doesn't make any sense.

And the facts are indeed the same. Taking modern society as an example, after World War II, almost no country is building cruisers. This is a fact.

Luo Ji obviously didn't intend to waste time on the cruiser either.

So he had a clear goal and directly invested in the manufacture of destroyers and battleships.

The number of warships in the Yangtze River Fleet may not sound like many, but standing on the river and looking at it at a glance, it is already quite large.

This fleet is now going to burn exaggerated numbers just for daily training exercises and regular maintenance.

I heard that the financial loss caused by the destroyer destroyed by the Hydra incident almost caused the old minister of our Ministry of Finance to go into shock on the spot.

Now that the latest battleship has been manufactured, in order to prevent their emperor from swiping his pen and start to build a new battleship, our old minister hastily sent a report, full of snot and tears Tell Luo Ji that warships can no longer be built, and if such expenditures are maintained, the treasury will be emptied.

After receiving such a report, Luo Ji naturally had to ask Ye Qingxuan for confirmation.

After doing a simple calculation, Ye Qingxuan said that in terms of finances, there is still room to spare. It is possible to build a few more warships, but considering the continuous expenditure in the future, and there are other major projects in the civilization, If this continues, there will inevitably be risks of economic instability.

At the same time, at that juncture, if there is a sudden war, the huge economic pressure caused and the economic collapse will probably only happen in an instant.

This risk is not insignificant, and it has already developed to this point. Luo Ji can't do this kind of thing with the risk of collapse, so he decisively suspends the follow-up manufacturing plan at the shipyard for the time being.

According to the current situation, I am afraid that it will have to delay for a few years before proceeding to the next step of development, but during this period, the research obviously has to continue.

Warships may not be built yet, but research must never stop.

These days, how far it can develop depends entirely on the progress of research.

Once the research stops, doesn't the development also stop?This is something Luo Ji absolutely does not allow.

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Chapter 1199, The Inevitability of the Times

In the Yangtze River Basin, under the surface of the river, groups of murloc soldiers showed their vigorous posture underwater, crossing the turbulent river all the way, and quickly approaching the Yangtze River Fortress of the Ten Thousand Worlds Civilization.

For the murlocs, the day was no different than usual.

And accidents often come on such days...

The violent roar of the explosion directly blasted the entire peaceful river surface, dragging the murlocs in the water into fear and death instantly!

In the distance, on the deck of the Pioneer, Yuan Xi silently put down the binoculars in his hand, and then said to the adjutant standing beside him...

"The mine battle was successful, and a signal was sent to let the Water Lizard troops pull up the underwater cordon at the pre-determined position to clean up the remnants."

On both sides of the Yangtze River Basin, the water lizard warriors who received the signal moved quickly.

After taking two quick steps on the bank, he plunged headlong into the rushing water of the river.

The Yangtze River Basin 1000 meters ahead is almost full of mines!It was the latest work of dwarf master Bart Wildhammer, and it was said that the inspiration came from the words of their majesty.

This thing is extremely powerful, and the only shortcoming is that I am afraid that it cannot distinguish the enemy. Sometimes when striking the enemy, it will also limit their own actions.

So even if they are their own people, they dare not approach the Yangtze River Basin, so they can only wait here obediently.

The presence of sea mines undoubtedly effectively restrained the murlocs from going deep.

After this battle, if they want to sneak in along the Yangtze River in the future, they have to see if they have the strength to pass through this mine area.

After that, the Yangtze River Fortress will undoubtedly be able to live in peace for a while.

On the other side, Redis couldn't be at peace at all.

This state of being controlled by others is really too bad.

Before him, he had always regarded killing his younger brother Otis and regaining the throne of the gray elves as his highest goal.

And now it seems that he was too naive.

The existence of the civilization of the ten thousand realms is like a bucket of ice water poured on his head, making him clearly realize what it means to have people beyond people and heaven beyond the sky.

From the current point of view, the opponent's steel fleet is simply not something his black sail warship can compete with.

Hydra is basically the only hole card in his hand that can pose a threat to the steel fleet.

Facing such a powerful opponent, the huge psychological pressure made Redis increasingly anxious.

But at this moment, Luo Ji, who was far away in Mirror City, was doing the exact opposite.

After the first batch of mines were produced and a mine defense line was deployed in the Yangtze River Basin, he temporarily ignored the affairs there, and handed over the full authority to Yuan Xi, the senior naval officer.

On the one hand, as an emperor, he has a lot of things to do every day, and it is impossible to keep staring at this one.

On the other hand, it was because he couldn't control it if he wanted to, and in a short period of time, he had nothing to do with that Hydra, so what else could he do?

Fortunately, in this area, Redis is the same.

For the time being, Luo Ji had nothing to do with Hydra, and Redis was also afraid of Ysera's existence, so he didn't dare to play his last trump card. For a while, the two sides also formed a delicate balance.

During this period, Luo Ji obviously shifted his attention completely to other developments.

Over the years, probably due to the substantial increase in the population base, the population of the various regions of the Myriad Realms civilization has also begun to increase at an even more exaggerated rate.

Among them, the southeast area is already overcrowded.

At this time, Luo Ji issued a very important decree, that is to tear down the city wall and expand the city area!

Of course, this demolition must also be done step by step.

The first city whose walls were to be demolished was Donglin City in the southeast region.

The location of this city is already located in the Central Plains, so it can be regarded as a relatively inner city.

According to the current pattern of the civilization of the Ten Thousand Realms, the invading enemy in the southeast area cannot pass the natural defense line of the Yangtze River, and it is impossible to threaten the cities behind.

In the present era, the outer city walls still have value, but the inland cities continue to erect the city walls, but the actual significance is not great, and they will not have much defensive effect. On the contrary, it will affect the expansion and development of the city, and they will be demolished one after another. The internal city wall has now become a necessary process.

The whole project went fairly smoothly.

The subsequent expansion and development plans of Donglin City have also been put on the agenda.

As long as the construction and reform of Donglin City is successful in this wave, other cities in the Central Plains will also usher in this step. To a certain extent, this is also an inevitable development of the times.

Now, turning the perspective back to Mirror City, Luo Ji has been very concerned about the research and development progress of various projects in the Academy of Sciences recently.

The latest good news is that his goblin inventors have successfully overcome difficulties and produced dry batteries, which will soon be mass-produced. In this way, the flashlight, an electrical appliance, can also be successfully put into daily use. up.

During this period, the research and development of generators actually made progress.

However, according to Luo Ji's intentions, the goblin scientists were not asked to make portable generators, as he didn't need that kind of thing right now.

What he needs is a thermal generator with super output power that can supply power to an entire city!

This group of lunatic scientists of the goblin race seemed to be very excited about the crazy idea of ​​their emperor, and the two sides hit it off immediately and directly invested in the research.

However, it is obviously not an easy task to manufacture such a high-power generator.

Of course, the more important thing is that the output power is too high, which can easily lead to instability of the machine and uncontrollable dangers.

In this regard, Luo Ji naturally relied on his common sense of modern people to help them to a certain extent.

For example, it does not mean that it is really necessary to use one generator to get everything done, but ten or twenty generators are actually fine.

They can divide an entire city into several small areas that are relatively easy to manage and control, and then use wires to connect each small area to a generator. A generator only needs to provide stable power to one area. .

It has to be said that Luo Ji's words successfully pulled some crazy scientists out of a dead end who really wanted to use a generator to power a city.

But from the point of view of the whole matter, the difficulty of this matter has not been reduced much.

Because the number of generators has increased, the number of wires has also increased, so the difficulty of designing the circuit system of an entire city will naturally increase accordingly.

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Chapter 1200, Power Construction

If there are no accidents, the first city in the civilization of myriad worlds with popularized electricity will be born soon

Recently, Luo Ji was so passionate about this matter that he couldn't extricate himself.

"Your Majesty, the thermal power generators at the Academy of Science and Technology are all ready for use."

Ye Hua, who was in charge of this matter, reported the latest progress to Luo Ji immediately.

"What about the circuit design diagram in the city? Have you got the circuit design diagram?"

After hearing the report, Luo Ji asked quickly.

"Replying to Your Majesty, according to the news sent by the Electric Power Bureau this morning, the power routes for areas No. [-], No. [-], and No. [-] in the city have been confirmed, and the remaining areas are still being confirmed step by step."

Obviously, this power bureau is a new department that Luo Ji has just established in recent months. Normally, it is responsible for the electrical system in the city and all related matters.

As for the power station, taking various circumstances into consideration, Luo Ji built it in a suburb outside the city.

After all, if a factory that accommodates so many high-power thermal generators is built in a city, if something unexpected happens, it may cause huge harm.